THINKING OF SELLING YOUR LA QUINTA HOME YOURSELF?
For Sale By Owner – A friend of mine recently told me that her brother is thinking of selling his home… and doing it himself, without employing a real estate agent. This opened up a discussion between us about all the reasons why selling your own home is not the best option. Her brother’s home is big and beautiful. He and his wife have lived there for nearly twenty years, and have invested a lot of money and a lot of themselves into making it a picture perfect showplace. They’re emotionally attached and that’s understandable. But life circumstances change over time and their home has become too much house for them now… they are retired, there are health problems, etc. The time has come to make a move into something more congruent with their current life situation.
Making a big decision like this can be overwhelming. Every person’s home is comfortably familiar and their safe haven, filled with a lifetime’s worth of memories. Things with sentimental value have to be sorted through, and dealt with by selling, donating, giving away to the children, etc. At this stage, some people have the thought, “who better to sell my own home but me, since I am most intimately familiar with it?”